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Your blog might survive without a blogging editorial calendar – but YOU won’t.
The preparation. The time. The processing – it’s ALL worth it.
So you invest, generate the blogging editorial calendar and you’re ready to go…
But how do you know you have the right calendar setup?
How do you know what you’re about to launch into is excellent – that it’s really gonna work the blogging mojo?
5 Ways to Tell Your Calendar is Done Right
#5 You’re Fired Up!
When you organize a great blogging editorial calendar, it fires you up! It makes you stoked to start writing and you can’t wait to reach the goals within it and when you complete it.
- You’re fired up because you have purpose.
- You’re fired up because you have a plan.
- You’re fired up because your content is about to become more than content – it’s about to become money in your pocket.
#4 You Can Confidently Team Source
You know you’ve created a killer blogging editorial calendar when it’s easy to see what can be team sourced. Your calendar gives you a vision. It plans specifically how you’re going to make money so you can write and hire someone else to promote, beautify and rock your blogging presence.
#3 You Have Topics that Will Generate Revenue
You know your blogging editorial calendar is a success when it’s filled with topics that have complementary products you can promote. Whether they are your products, affiliate products, lead generations, clicks, advertising…
Whatever it is – you know exactly where it’s going to go and how you’re going to rock the call to action.
#2 You Have Time
You can breathe! This is one of my favorite tell-tale signs. When you have an editorial calendar that’s organized right, your free-time multiplies.
- You function without chaos
- You have a plan
- You can knock out posts in bulk
- You can walk away from promoting and social media and
- You can feel great about it all!
#1 You Feel Peace and Calm
This is hands down the #1 indicator that you’ve created a blogging editorial calendar that’s gonna rock the blogging world’s socks!
Peace of mind.
You can’t buy it. You can’t steal it. You can’t falsely produce it.
When you feel calm, you know you’re in the right place with your calendar and you’re about to break through your own proverbial blogging ceiling.
Don’t have the time or want the headache of creating your own editorial blogging system? Come learn more about the 10 Ways to Jump-Start an Effective Blogging Editorial Calendar on my blog. Save the brain-damage and fire up your blogging groove right now – come check it out!
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I’m quite new to blogging and lately have been feeling quite swamped with writing new regular posts and keeping my social media pages updated regularly. So guess what I am doing now!!! One Editorial Calendar coming up!! thank you so much, maybe my kids and hubby will quit complaining about how much I am on the computer!!!
I have been working with Bonnie for about 5 months and I have seen her systems work with my blog. She is a ROCK STAR when it comes to blogging! As are Tiff and Fran 🙂
Great tips! I definitely feel more at ease about my writing/blogging when I have a sense of organization to it!
Great tips, this is definitely something I need to work on. Thank you!
You’re welcome 🙂 So glad to hear you’re ready to jump on the ed cal bandwagon! You’ll never look back 😉
I need to work on this! Thanks for the great post, Bonnie!
Glad you liked it 🙂 Honest, when you get the right rhythm – it’s UH-MAAZ-ING what an ed cal can do for you and your blog…
I’m using an editorial calendar and its been great for me to organize my posts. I’m able to see all of my posts laid out and it helps me to sort out all of my ideas. Editorial calendar’s are the way to go.
Way to go!
I am just starting out, but my blog is growing much faster than I anticipated! (Such a fun problem, right?) I need to get organized quickly, so this is very helpful! Thank you! 🙂
Michelle, what a fantastic problem! You will LOVE using an editorial calendar when it’s done right 🙂
Hmm, I never even heard of a blog editorial calendar! I will have to go read more about it!
Most definitely – they are magical! Don’t blog anymore without one… trust me on that 😉
Thanks for sharing! I’m absolutely checking up on your other links as well. 🙂
Yvonne! Looking forward to seeing you around 🙂
Way to go, Sara! Now just wiggle in some of #3 so you can shift to #4 and have even more time! 🙂
Great timing– I just started my editorial calendar yesterday! #2 is already working out. In about an hour today, I wrote half of 3 different posts I’m planning. Thanks!
I don’t have an editorial calendar and yet strangely I am calm and at peace. Time? Plenty of that! Energy is questionable but that’s anything. I need more coffeee.
I’ve tried to create an editorial calendar but it’s just never worked for me. I think it just has a lot to do with the fact I typically don’t have much going on so there’s not a lot to write about.
Kim, the great part about an editorial calendar is that it gets you thinking ahead so you always have something to write about 🙂 It’s wonderful to hear that you have plenty of time!
I got my calendar made for October and it is very liberating. There are two blanks on it, but I am just counting on the fact that my kids will do something worth writing about!! IT does make me feel calmer and I like that I can get things ready and have them scheduled and ready to go in case something happens and I get busy with my day job!
Way to go!!
I got my calendar made for October and it is very liberating. There are two blanks on it, but I am just counting on the fact that my kids will do something worth writing about!! IT does make me feel calmer and I like that I can get things ready and have them scheduled and ready to go in case something happens and I get busy with my day job!
I’d just die without my calendar!!
I think I need to actually see some calendars to have an idea if I have one or not. Lol!
There are a million ways to set up ed cals, I hear you 😉 You can take a look at this post too and it’ll give you a better idea of the things you can and should do when you set up your ed cal: http://hobbytohot.com/10-ways-jump-start-effective-blogging-editorial-calendar/
Hope that helps!
Really great tips
Really great tips!
Thanks!
I love my editorial calendar! Can’t imagine blogging without it.
Amen, SITStah!
I love my editorial calendar. I’m almost done making October’s.
I like these guidelines, Bonnie, and will definitely keep them in mind as I put the finishing touches on my calendar!
Shana, way to go! You might want to check out this post just to see a few more ways to multi-task with your ed cal 🙂 http://hobbytohot.com/10-ways-jump-start-effective-blogging-editorial-calendar/
Bonnie, you post comes at just the right time for me! I’ve just started blogging and using an editorial calendar to help me plan out my week. Thanks for the awesome tips!
Welcome, Shanna! Congrats on your new adventure 🙂
Thank you Bonnie! 🙂
Yay Bonnie! GREAT post! Believe it or not I just started using an editorial calendar about 2 months ago…I don’t know why..I LOVE it!
Blessings!
Shari! I’m so dang proud of you! Believe it or not, the majority of bloggers don’t use an ed cal and even when they do, it’s not as effective as it should be. So way to go!